But I'm not at all sure how important that difference is . . . . With the brain being a massively parallel system, there isn't necessarily a huge advantage in "compiling knowledge" (I can come up with both advantages and disadvantages) and I suspect that there are more than enough surprises that we have absolutely no way of guessing where on the spectrum of compilation vs. not the brain actually is.
Neuroscience makes clear that most of human long-term memory is actually constructive and inventive rather than strictly recollective, see e.g. Israel Rosenfield's nice book "The Invention of Memory" www.amazon.com/ Invention-Memory-New-View-Brain/dp/0465035922 as well as a lot of more recent research.... So the knowledge that is compiled in the human brain, is compiled in a way that assumes self-organizing and creative cognitive processes will be used to extract and apply it... IMO in an AGI system **much** knowledge must also be stored/retrieved in this sort of way (where retrieval is construction/invention). But AGI's will also have more opportunity than the normal human brain to use idiot-savant-like "precise computer-like memory" when appropriate... Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
